Hi, I record laser scanner data by "rosbag record" option. When I want to run hector_slam with the bag file I faced some errors. I use these commands to run:
rosmake hector_slam
roslaunch hector_slam_launch tutorial.launch
rosbag play test.bag --clock
and in the tab that tutorial.launch run, this error appear repeatedly:
Trajectory Server: Transform from /map to scanmatcher_frame failed: "map" passed to lookupTransform argument target_frame does not exist.
And also the output of "rosbag info filename.bag" was:
path: 2014-04-02-19-53-59.bag
version: 2.0
duration: 9:40s (580s)
start: Apr 02 2014 19:54:00.22 (1396452240.22)
end: Apr 02 2014 20:03:40.50 (1396452820.50)
size: 12.8 MB
messages: 6412
compression: none [17/17 chunks]
types: diagnostic_msgs/DiagnosticArray [3cfbeff055e708a24c3d946a5c8139cd]
dynamic_reconfigure/Config [958f16a05573709014982821e6822580]
dynamic_reconfigure/ConfigDescription [757ce9d44ba8ddd801bb30bc456f946f]
rosgraph_msgs/Log [acffd30cd6b6de30f120938c17c593fb]
sensor_msgs/LaserScan [90c7ef2dc6895d81024acba2ac42f369]
topics: /diagnostics 579 msgs : diagnostic_msgs/DiagnosticArray
/hokuyo_node/parameter_descriptions 1 msg : dynamic_reconfigure/ConfigDescription
/hokuyo_node/parameter_updates 1 msg : dynamic_reconfigure/Config
/rosout 6 msgs : rosgraph_msgs/Log (2 connections)
/scan 5825 msgs : sensor_msgs/LaserScan
How can I solve this problem.?
Originally posted by adroit89 on ROS Answers with karma: 33 on 2014-04-02
Post score: 1
Original comments
Comment by demmeln on 2014-04-02:
What does rosbag info test.bag output? (edit your question to include the output)
Comment by demmeln on 2014-04-03:
It seems that the trajectory server complains, because the transform is not published. I don't know how hector mapping works, but I would disable the trajectory server and first look into how to get he mapping part to work.
Comment by demmeln on 2014-04-03:
I.e. make sure all the necessary topics and parameters are there. You can use rxgraph / rqt_graph to check that rosbag is connected to the mapping node on the laser topics.
Comment by adroit89 on 2014-04-04:
Actually I cant understand that which topics and parameter it exactly needs! I can run the bag file example that provided by hector darmstad. I am sure it is not my problem with laser device or hector slam package. It relates to parameters that bag file needs.
Comment by demmeln on 2014-04-06:
Two immediate candidates you might need are the Odometry, the IMU info and the /tf topic, which are both included in the bag file. I think hector mapping can work without IMU, but maybe needs some form of odometry still?
Comment by demmeln on 2014-04-06:
Moreover you might need to edit the launch files / parameters to account for your setup, i.e. topic and tf-frame names.
Comment by demmeln on 2014-04-06:
Have you followed this tutorial closely? http://wiki.ros.org/hector_slam/Tutorials/SettingUpForYourRobot
It discusses how to set up your parameters with and without odometry.
Comment by adroit89 on 2014-04-07:
Yes, I followed this tutorial before. I can solve that problem. It was related to tf setting. Now I face another problem! During process in hector_slam I visit this message a lot: SearchDir angle change too
And it appears a lot and make problem for matching the data to map.
Comment by demmeln on 2014-04-08:
If there is a different problem, you should open a seperate question about it and mark stefan's answer as accepted for this question.
